Thank you Weswhitebore, you've provided a really insightful reply. Thank you so much.

Im all for the increased penalty, but maybe they should address the lag exploits in pvp first that cause players to freeze and be kicked for inactivity.

I appreciate your informative and enthusiastic response, did I mention it happened on my old PC too?

The issue is not players teleporting around, im used to that. The issue is when I attack or am near specific players my fps dies, and it gets slowly worse until I am booted from the pvp match, at which point all fps issues stop. So either they’re using a specific ability that is causing a some kind of bug, or it’s an intentional exploit. It needs to be fixed.

So weekly now, I will enter a pvp match and it will start out just fine. Then after a few minutes of fighting with the other team and etc. I will get some choppiness, which slowly gets worse the more I try and fight the other team. It usually gets to the point where I can't even jump inbetween the freezes and I get booted for inactivity. Of course, when i'm back on fleet there is zero performance issue as with all other content in this game since launch. I've noticed sometimes when this happens, if they're new at it they just stand there doing nothing for a few seconds while they do their thing, whatever it is. I've been playing the game since launch, and it's really frustrating to see this ruining the only reason I have a subscription to this mmo. If you aren't aware, lag switching is when another player (a complete and utter loser with no life) uses an exploit to cause performance issues to other players. I'd like to point out it's obvious that this is only happening with specific players, I was able to capture when I was a match with the same player twice in a row and the rest of the day pvp ran fine. I've reported it multiple times using the format they provide to their CS email address, but they don't bother to reply.

When a complete and utter loser finds an exploit to lag opposing players.

What is the best way to report them nowadays?

Anyway to mitigate that on your PC?

Same exact thing happens to me. There's now at least 2-3 of them, or maybe just the same guy on one account. I was able to track down one by happening to be in the same match as them twice in a row, each time on the other team. The lag switching only happened when this player was in the match. The rest of the day, smooth sailing. People love to dismiss it, but there's plenty of losers out there who will do this.

This only happens to me during pvp matches.

I'll pvp alot more, for the 8v8's. The reward tracks are a welcome addition to pvp, and will encourage alot more pvpers I think. I'm looking forward to seeing the changes in action, and the new pvp season system is great for pvp mains.

Personally I believe in this time period, non force users and force users would be waay more on par then they would be in say the movies/shows. The reason being is that the jedi and sith are nowhere near as scarce in this era, and surely many 'normal' characters (depending on their storyline..a cook for example probably wouldnt bother with combat) have encountered them, or have had training or some experience in fighting them. This would especially pertain to characters who have military training or just general combat experience, im pretty sure they would know a thing or two on how to take down or hold their own against a force user.

This is the build I use on my vanguard(exactly the same since were mirrored), it works very well in pvp, since you haven't played in so long I suggest making sure you charge people more often so you can put in 2 free flame sweeps, this also helps with reserving and cooling your heat. http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#301McbZ0cZrMGrboroGR.2 IMO it provides maximum survivability and moderate sustained dps, you'll be able to provide extra AOE and you should be able to solo most classes 1v1 depending on cooldowns and the situation etc.

what he said more or less, i have a skill tree on my vanguard that is 98% matched to what he showed you and trust me it works very well, don't feel underpowered when you get recruit gear at level 50, all classes absolutely suck until they get full battlemaster, then it's alot easier from there.

I think an additional melee move with the animation of a bayonet would be cool in addition to stock strike, but I don't think it should be changed, I mean, it looks epic and who knows, maybe these rifles were made differently then today's military weapons.